Railway-tie.



A. 'CHALASIEVVICZ.

RAILWAY 11E. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30, 1916.

RAILWAY-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1916.

Application filed .Tune 30, 1916. Serial No. 106,813.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ANTONI Gimnasia wroz, a subject of the Czar of Russia, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful lm provements in Railway-Ties, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in railway ties.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a railway tie and rail fastener in which the tie may be formed of metal, wood, cement or other suitable material, the

- same being provided with interengaging rail fasteners whereby the rail will not be released in the event of the accidental loosening or removal of the securing bolts.

A further object of the device is the provision of a cross tie adapted for the seating reception of rails thereon and arrangedwith inter-engaging slide securing rail fastening wedge members adapted for retaining the rails upon the tie without the employment of locking' bolts although bolts may be employed as a precautionary measure when desired.

In carrying out these objects, a tie is arranged which is easy and inexpensive to manufacture having transverse slots adapted for the seating reception of rail engaging wedge members, suitably formed locking plates being slidably positioned within longitudinal side grooves of the tie for overlying the ends of the wedges which plates may be secured in place by locking bolts extending therethrough and also through the intermediately positioned wedges, the entire structure being easily assembled and disassembled when desired.

In the drawings forming a part of this application and in which like designating characters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several viewsz-Figure 1 is a side elevation of an end portion of the present tie having a rail secured in operative position thereon. Fig. 2 is a horizontal longitudinal sectional view through the same. iFig. 8 is a vertical sectional view taken upon line Ill-Ill of Fig. 1. Fig. t is a perspective view of one of the locking plates employed with the device, and, Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the rail securing wedge members.

Referring more in detail to the drawing, a tie 10 is provided rectangular in crosssec-V tion and adapted for seating a rail 11 upon the upper face thereof. Transversely spaced lslots 12 tapered in the saine direction are provided adjacent the free ends of the tie 10 with the inner walls 13 of the slots arranged in parallelism and properly spaced apart for the reception of the base flanges 14 of the rail 11 therebetween. The slots 12 are also downwardly flaring and are adapted to receive oppositely formed similar locking wedges 15 arranged with inwardly-extending marginal lips 16 for overlying the rail flanges 14 when the said wedges are seated within the slots 12. It will be understood that a pair of such wedges are provided for each rail 11 and are forced laterally inwardly of the slots 12 until their enlarged ends lie flush with the adjacent inner face of longitudinal side grooves or ways 17 with which the tie 10 is provided.

Locking plates 18 trapezoidal in cross-sec tion are slidably removably positioned within the grooves 17 from the open ends of the latter at the end of the tie 10. The locking plates 18 being arranged within the grooves 17 prevent the removal of the wedges 15 in either direction although it will be evident that the wedge formation of the members 15 will, under ordinary circumstances, prevent the wedges from passing entirely through the said slots. 4rlhe locking plates 18 are provided with notches 19 adjacent their inner ends whereby any instrument not shown, may be insertedfor forcibly removing` the locking plates from the grooves 17.

Perforations 20 are arranged through the locking plates 18 in alinement with each other and with longitudinal openings 21 eX- tending through the wedges 15, the said perforations and openings being adapted for the reception of hold-fast devices such as bolts 22 secured therethrough by means of lock nuts 23, thus further insuring against the loosening or removal of the wedges 15. A serviceable tie structure is thus provided wherein the rail may be readily secured to the tie and locked in position without the employment of the bolts 22 if desired although the latter may be employed when the traffic conditions warrant their use.

What l claim as new is 1. A railway tie provided with transverse slots having their inner walls in parallelism spaced apart a distance equal to the base of a railway rail, the said slots being downwardly Haring and tapered in a uniform di rection, wedge members closely fitted within the said slots having inwardly projecting marginal rail engaging lips, the said tie hav,- ing longitudinal grooves upon its opposite l sides extending inwardly from the free end of the tie, looking platesslidably retained within the said grooves and having receiving notches in their inner ends, and locking bolts transversely positioned through the said plates and the interniediately arranged wedges.

2. A tie provided with spaced transverse slots, a rail upon the said tie with its base Copies 0f this patent may be .Obtained f9.1" .five verts each,

flanges positioned between the said slots, locking flanges seated Within the said slots and provided with `iIlW3419115? projecting niarginal lips overlying the said base flanges, the said tie having inwardly flaring side grooves opening from the free end of the tie traversing the said slots, and retaining looking plates removably vsecured Within the said grooves and being substantially trapezoidal in cross-section.

In testimony whereof l alii); iny signature.

ANTONl CHALASIEWICZ.

by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington. .1). 0l. 

